AII Launches Industry-First Tool Standardising Measurement of Carbon Emissions
The new tool published by the climate-focused nonprofit aims to create a standardised benchmark across textile facilities to accelerate fashion’s efforts to decarbonise.
Sustainability
How fashion can do better for people and the planet.
A More Circular Fashion Industry Will Require a Collective Effort
As consumers become more engaged with sustainability issues, circularity could be the key that unlocks the door to a more sustainable future.
A More Circular Fashion Industry Will Require a Collective Effort
As consumers become more engaged with sustainability issues, circularity could be the key that unlocks the door to a more sustainable future.
Fashion Can’t Solve the Ocean Plastic Problem
Brands are pumping out millions of shoes, bags and shirts made with plastic they say was rescued from the world’s oceans and beaches. But the environmental impact is hard to measure and some experts say the industry is doing more harm than good.
Fashion Can’t Solve the Ocean Plastic Problem
Brands are pumping out millions of shoes, bags and shirts made with plastic they say was rescued from the world’s oceans and beaches. But the environmental impact is hard to measure and some experts say the industry is doing more harm than good.
Get Out of China’s Coercive Cotton Fields
This week, claims that over half a million Muslims from minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are being forced to pick cotton widely used in the global fashion industry stunned consumers and stained major brands, highlighting longstanding traceability problems that must be solved.
Get Out of China’s Coercive Cotton Fields
This week, claims that over half a million Muslims from minorities in China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are being forced to pick cotton widely used in the global fashion industry stunned consumers and stained major brands, highlighting longstanding traceability problems that must be solved.
CNMI Launches Report and Roadmap to Socially Sustainable Wage Practices in Fashion
Having conducted the largest survey of wage and payment conditions in the luxury sector, the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana hopes to act as an example to other international manufacturing hubs.
CNMI Launches Report and Roadmap to Socially Sustainable Wage Practices in Fashion
Having conducted the largest survey of wage and payment conditions in the luxury sector, the Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana hopes to act as an example to other international manufacturing hubs.
Are These Fashions Linked to Forced Labour? Brands Can’t Confidently Say No.
At least 570,000 Uighur Muslims are being forced to work in Chinese cotton fields that produce one-fifth of the world’s supply, a new report says. Most fashion brands can’t promise their products aren’t implicated, with concern spreading from fast-fashion and sportswear giants to major luxury groups.
Are These Fashions Linked to Forced Labour? Brands Can’t Confidently Say No.
At least 570,000 Uighur Muslims are being forced to work in Chinese cotton fields that produce one-fifth of the world’s supply, a new report says. Most fashion brands can’t promise their products aren’t implicated, with concern spreading from fast-fashion and sportswear giants to major luxury groups.
Patagonia’s New CEO Plots a Post-Trump Future for the Activist Brand
Ryan Gellert talks about how his #Resistance clothing company can continue the climate fight.
Patagonia’s New CEO Plots a Post-Trump Future for the Activist Brand
Ryan Gellert talks about how his #Resistance clothing company can continue the climate fight.
Shahi Exports’ Anant Ahuja on Reforming the Fashion Supply Chain
Before the pandemic, Shahi Exports was generating roughly $1 billion a year producing for brands like Gap and Uniqlo, making it India’s largest apparel manufacturer for export. The executive leading the firm’s sustainability initiatives reflects on new opportunities to reform fashion’s supply chain, despite the crisis and turbulence ahead.
Shahi Exports’ Anant Ahuja on Reforming the Fashion Supply Chain
Before the pandemic, Shahi Exports was generating roughly $1 billion a year producing for brands like Gap and Uniqlo, making it India’s largest apparel manufacturer for export. The executive leading the firm’s sustainability initiatives reflects on new opportunities to reform fashion’s supply chain, despite the crisis and turbulence ahead.
Why Protecting Fashion’s Factory Workers Is Harder Than Ever
Apparel manufacturers are limiting access to third parties, including regulators and auditors, raising concerns about fair labour practises and safe workplaces.
Why Protecting Fashion’s Factory Workers Is Harder Than Ever
Apparel manufacturers are limiting access to third parties, including regulators and auditors, raising concerns about fair labour practises and safe workplaces.
Can Reformation Make Fast Fashion Sustainable?
The LA-based brand is laying out a new set of commitments designed to decouple its growth from its environmental impact.
Can Reformation Make Fast Fashion Sustainable?
The LA-based brand is laying out a new set of commitments designed to decouple its growth from its environmental impact.
The Year Ahead: Consumers to Seek Justice in the Supply Chain
With low-level workers throughout fashion’s global supply chain facing the sharp end of the crisis, consumers will increasingly expect companies to offer them more dignity, security and justice.
The Year Ahead: Consumers to Seek Justice in the Supply Chain
With low-level workers throughout fashion’s global supply chain facing the sharp end of the crisis, consumers will increasingly expect companies to offer them more dignity, security and justice.
The Year Ahead: Keep Your Suppliers Close
To mitigate future ruptures, fashion players must move away from transactional relationships with suppliers in favour of deeper partnerships that bring greater agility and accountability.
The Year Ahead: Keep Your Suppliers Close
To mitigate future ruptures, fashion players must move away from transactional relationships with suppliers in favour of deeper partnerships that bring greater agility and accountability.
Fashion Makes Mixed Progress on Circularity
Brands missed roughly a third of the goals they set for themselves as part of an industry initiative that ended this year, reflecting the challenge that remains for the sector beyond ambitious sustainability targets.
Fashion Makes Mixed Progress on Circularity
Brands missed roughly a third of the goals they set for themselves as part of an industry initiative that ended this year, reflecting the challenge that remains for the sector beyond ambitious sustainability targets.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
EU Finalises Plan to Scale Back Sustainability Rules
The bloc’s overhaul sharply reduces the number of companies covered by ESG reporting and supply chain due-diligence laws, easing compliance pressures but increasing concerns over accountability.
EU to Ban Destruction of Unsold Clothes and Shoes
The European Commission has adopted new measures that will require medium and large companies to stop discarding unsold clothing and footwear, in the bloc’s latest move to target textile waste.
Climate Inaction Puts 34% of Fashion Industry Profits at Risk
The financial implications of global warming are becoming increasingly difficult for corporate executives to ignore.
German Watchdog Says Shein Must Substantiate or Remove Net-Zero Claims
The ultra-fast fashion retailer says it has updated language on its website following engagement with the group.
Rick Owens Bans Animal Fur
The news comes less than a week after the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade staged protests outside the brand’s stores.
Hearst Magazines Bans Fur From Its Publications
Following the publicisation of Condé Nast’s fur ban in October, the Harper’s Bazaar publisher will now prohibit the use of animal fur in its editorial and advertising content.
Cyclone in Sri Lanka Impacts Multiple Garment Factories
A week after devastating floods, the industry association in Sri Lanka says multiple large facilities have been impacted, as recovery efforts for affected workers are underway.